#idk for worse or for better i guess

[3lostyears]

half-doomed; it only gets better when it hurts dance miserable [2011] | so much (for) stardust [2023]

#guess who has been listening to soul punk recently #fobedit #fall out boy #patrick stump #soul punk #pete wentz #so much (for) stardust #dance miserable #it's like...the band got so much better but the world got worse #sometimes the world gets better and you get worse and sometimes you feel better and the world feels worse #i love the world i just don't love the way it makes me feel etc #idk if this makes sense to anyone including myself but. i tried #smfs #sm(f)s #my stuff

[pinkgibbon]

family business

after the events of yakuza 0 they become business partners and run the best massage/real estate company the world has ever seen

#yakuza #yakuza 0 #makoto makimura #tetsu tachibana #ryu ga gotoku #i painted ovr a drawing i had started in 2021 and its so much better now. its not even recognizable as the same artist tbh #which is reassuring bc i actually feel like my art has gotten worse since my rgg days and this shows that progress is not linear :) #nyways i thought the rendering looked a little leyendecker-y so i scribbled in a white background to match #i tried to make them look related but idk if i got it across. luckily the bar sega has set in that department is not hard to reach #rgg #etc etc #yakuza 0 spoilers #i guess #my art #fanart #oops hi i saw that pisssinger died and forgot to click post

[dailyedgeworth]

today, i drew the ponyo!edgeworth in a bucket in medibang

#idk how i feel about it #it's not better or worse i guess #just different #miles edgeworth #ace attorney #mitsurugi reiji #gyakuten saiban #bucket saga

[ecoqueer]

I wish that people gave a shit about nonbinary people who don’t use they/them pronouns. You can literally give your friend group (which includes another nonbinary person) a list of your favorite pronouns, none of which include they/them, and mention several times that you don’t like they/them pronouns for yourself, but they’ll make the switch from she/her pronouns to…they/them. And feel super proud of themselves for being sooo progressive as to use they/them pronouns for you….when those aren’t your pronouns.

I think that saying “he she and they are my least favorite but are fine in combination with other things…I’m really fine with any neos but here’s a list of my faves that you can choose from!” Is polite and not a difficult request. I’m not good at being a pushy person, and I shouldn’t need to be.

#it screams #i guess I’ll pull the lists out again and re-link them #but the aforementioned friends view messages from me as a chore and check them rarely so when they do they’ve built up and so just skim #everything #which I’m fucking tired of #I’ve been going back and forth on whether it’s better to have no friends or a few friends who make you feel shitty #dunno which is worse #they also are extremely cavalier with covid while knowing I have no health insurance #and have supported some statements/actions that really make me sad #so idk I might be basically friendless at this point #i hold on for too long to people who have clearly moved on and don’t much care about being my friend anymore #I’ve tried reaching out a few times to no avail so idk I might just give up #try to cultivate online relationships more #which feels pretty impossible to me #sigh #I’ve been not able to sleep well #because of issues in my life with…all of the few people in it #issues that could be solved if I had kept a wider support network #instead of getting trapped with someone who was abusing me and my friends who don’t seem to give a shit about that and expressed more #concern for him than for me when the news was revealed to them #again I don’t have health insurance so no therapist #which I fucking desperately need right now #i have no one separate to talk to #the one who knows all of the different factors from all of the angles…is the abuser #i feel like I’m in so much fucking pain and I feel so alone and all of the people in my life who are supposed to be my loved ones #are standing around me ignoring me completely and acting like everything is okay #just causing me more and more pain #well this didn’t start out intended as a vent but it sure turned into one huh #i wish I could convey to y’all the desperation and loneliness and aching that I feel #vent

[arsenicflame]

getting real worried about this one lads

#i absolutely trust the crew to give him a good arc #im just very attached (aren't we all?) #nyxtalks #izzy hands #israel hands #ofmd #im mostly just worried we might get a 'gets worse before it gets better' character arc and s2 is gonna be him doing a bunch of shit #(and the antis going 'hahaha we told you so!!!) #personally i feel like izzy could Have that turning point now; with the situation on the revenge theres great opportunities for him to #ally himself with the rest of the crew instead of leaning into the krakens shit #idk like i said. i trust the crew im pretty confident we are getting izzy redemption at some point in the plan i just personally hope it #starts soon #(honestly this is just a worry in general even if he gets a great arc. i love the backstories to izzy we have built as a community and i #guess i worry that canon could just. fall short idk.)

[wanderinthedeep]

just a reminder that I think Biden’s actions re: American support for Israel are reprehensible, and,

1. I will vote for someone other than Biden in the Democratic primaries, BUT,

2. If it comes down to Biden vs Trump in the general again, I will absolutely vote Biden, I will not abstain from voting in protest, I will not vote third party in protest,

because Trump is several fucking orders of magnitude worse, and it’s not even close.

#just seen a lot of Biden hate on the dash lately #AND IT IS WELL DESERVED #but it’s also eerily similar to being on Tumblr in the leadup to 2016 #and how much of a push there was to encourage progressives not to vote #or to split the vote #and wow guess what that turned out to be a whole Russian psyop campaign #a SUCCESSFUL ONE #like we very much had Trump for four years #because some people wouldn’t hold their noses and vote for the better of two bad options #so I am begging and pleading #make your voice heard in the Democratic primary #but if it comes down to Biden and Trump one is obviously worse #and we have to get people to vote in substantial numbers against him #early morning political rant I guess idk

[skunkes]

observation post but ive found myself doing a lot of "problem solving" for commissions in my sketchbook because it helps me in a way that drawing digitally does not... Now im trying to figure out why that happens and how to bridge that disconnect because well why would it be different. Why is it so different 😭

#like why does it happen #whys it difficult to do thumbnails for stuff digitally #why did i draw 5 hyena heads digitally and not get anywhere but when i did them on paper it made more sense #why can i get proportions down nicely when doing thumbnails on paper but not digitally #i dont get it! ive been using digital for longer too and i always run into these issues #i guess the case could also be made that i think the traditional stuff looks better bc i never make complete pieces in there #like maybe if i drew a full detailed body on paper id struggle just as much #but idk. trying to figure out variations of a character digitally feels so suffocating even if i do it the same way #idk what it is. i want to figure it iut #*out #talkys #i also have always had this insurmountable issue where ill sketch proportions nicely #but as soon as i go to add detail suddenly the head feels too small or something feels off #and when i adjust it it just becomes More Off #i think this just is worse digitally? messes with sense of scale? i really dont know!!! idk how to fix it

[milkweedman]

Hi, you said in your bio that you're chronically ill. I was wondering if you had any tips for knitting with chronic pain (assuming that's your flavour of chronic illness)? Or do you know anyone who could give me advice?knitting/sewing is my sanity-saver.

I use compression gloves, only knit with specific weights of yarn (the ones that are the least painful for me), and try to take frequent breaks, which for me looks like switching hobbies every 30 minutes or so (knitting to spinning to knitting, etc). I also do my best to be very gentle on my joints when i can, altho i honestly rarely have the choice at work.

Personally i have joint problems and migraines, so thats what im correcting for/trying not to make worse. Helpful advice probably varies depending on what youre trying to correct for. Really my only general advice is "when it starts to hurt, try to stop" and "if possible, save the painfully difficult stuff for when youre doing well, and make the easier stuff your usual work"

If anyone who sees this has got other tips please feel free to comment them

#i havent knit socks in a while and i realized my last wrist and thumb issue flare up was the last time i did socks #and also right now when im doing socks again #which is making me think maybe my wrists are better than i thought generally speaking but knitting just destroys them #socks specifically i tend to zone out with and ignore pain signals #idk what to do with that info tho. i guess knit fewer socks :( #anyway there may be some things like that which you can save for when youre feeling comparatively well #but chronic pain isnt actually my issue and i can and will work thru pain to the continual degradation of my joints #so rly the joints getting worse is what my problem is #so i dont know how much if any of this is helpful to you #sorry im replying right before i need to leave for work and thru a migraine so. might try and think of something more helpful and update #my answer #chronic illness

[storfulsten]

eaouuugh

#corpse husband #amongus #I guess #help me pls #I've forgotten how to draw people that aren't fnf shaped #iiidk brainron not wanting to leave me alone #I know it's just 2 unfinished things plus a weird bean thingamajig but eh #maybe I'm worried if I don't upload I'll procastinate and won't end up producing anything cause I know I won't finish these doodles #and I started to not like the previous corpse attempt much I guess bc the teeth were so lame #so more teeth for better or worse yeehaw #idk if there'll be more corpse art or not tbh maybe I should just doodle more beans cause then I can draw his cute lil friends aswell #like a green sykkuno bean and a red rae bean and the rest aswell maybe ahh the possibilities lol #cause I probably won't draw anyone else otherwise bc learning how to draw more actual people is too much dang effort tbh ha ah well #k will stop rambling about nothing now ok cool #so enjoy more amongus ish corpse attempts or do not it's whatever #among us #I draw what I want #feel free to ignore nws ha #more bombeep and regular stuff soon hopefully fingers crossed #stream 'Never Satisfied' on spotify bc idk good music and also yelling ha #anyways laters k bye

[nicmares404]

Bruh, this is the third time i've been sick in the last 2 months. Viruses have to actually be targeting me at this point, cause this is just ridiculous (⊙_◎)

Like yeah I have a weaker immune system, but I'm literally not even going anywhere! I guess whatever traces my sister brings home from school (she's in HS) is enough. To make matters worse, my toddler brother is about to start pre-school. I sense so many more illnesses in my future O|￣|_

#i'm really excited he's starting school though #he's practically my kid so that adds to it #i guess this is kind of a vent? rant? idk #i'm just really irritated #especially since everyone else is usually fine #or if they do get sick they are better within a day or two #and i'm out for like a week #and also to find out that i can't even take dayquil/nyquil anymore without severe pain (i have been taking it my whole life) #yeah this is a rant #feel free to ignore #i just need to complain a bit😅 #i'm also gonna take a covid test cause this sore throat is worse than normal #i've only had 4 things that made it this bad and covid is one of them #cheese says stuff #rant

[curiositypolling]

pls reblog for sample size etc

follow for more occasional useless polls :)

#polls #mammals #i picked mammals just to simplify it and cause fish would skew things and maybe reptiles too depending on area #also for better or worse mammals are seen as more….pitiable i guess? idk like humans tend to care more

[lionheartedmusings]

it's actually interesting q!bad and q!baghera's slight? hypocracy ig? bc it mirrors the way fandom reacted to ron vs the workers cellbit's been killing. just girly things.

#qsmp #fandom neg #i guess??? #idk man when ron was kidnapped everyone had their morality in a twist but somehow cellbit got HEAVILY more justified immediately than bad #meanwhile i think they should all commit atrocities and the worse the better #but like it's interesting

[doedipus]

a large amount of time I've been spending on -untitled undefined scope original fiction project- since the last time I posted about it has been trying to develop the protagonist concept I came up with last summer or whatever into like, a character that would feel real and era appropriate.

it's fun research to do. naturally a lot of the details I assigned to her are things that I already think are cool, so it's been a lot of fun trying to trace her traits back through the relatively recent past, getting reminded of how much things have changed, or where the gaps in my intuition are, and then doing a flurry of reading to get a sense for exactly how someone like her and the people around her could have happened and what her life was probably like leading up to her present day. hopefully this results in some good good verisimilitude.

#I wrote a short story from her perspective over the holidays and then didn't know how to continue it #and then I got distracted by real life stuff for a few months #I forget if I posted about that #and then I've been picking through archive dot org for the last few weeks looking at this stuff #the last big rabbit hole was trying to get a better feel for era appropriate ts/tv subculture #the current one I'm looking at is how she would've gotten into language learning and how that would've worked #nettle has been prodding me about the setting thing lately so I've been thinking about that more too #probably the biggest hurdle by far is figuring out how I want to play that #and how I want the thing to be divided up #since the original coc scenario I'm developing this out of is centered on a flight from LA to honolulu #and the airport dungeon was definitely meant to be a hook for a larger campaign #some amount of it is going to cover protag lady's failed life in LA and some of it is going to be worse things happening in hawaii #but it's like. how much do I want to balance it one way or the other #and realistically how much does the aesthetics of 20th century air travel add to the story #besides me personally thinking it's compelling ofc #a lot of what I find compelling about hawaii is that it's an east/west cultural crossroads and realistically that's also true of socal #and I can wax poetic about socal as much as I want without worrying all that much about mishandling something #and there's also a lot of socal specific history along similar parallels to pull from that I'm more familiar with #I guess it comes down to whether curiosity re: 'doing it right' is enough of a motivator to do the increased amount of research #which I guess it has so far with the above character details. so hopefully that will continue #but it also feels like using machine translation a bit yknow. it's hard to know how effectively I'll be able to sanity check #although depending on where this goes I might be able to get other people involved to sensitivity read down the line #with most of the creative things I do I just have a tendency to always rely really heavily on figuring things out myself #I also want protag lady to have a Cool Car and idk how to get that from point a to point b narratively #this is like an entire second or third post's worth of tags but I don't feel like unfucking this so whatever. suffer. I guess.

[b4kuch1n]

I'm not gonna screenshot it bc 1/it really doesn't matter that much and 2/the person who made the comment is a kid but: a while ago I made a comic that's supposed to be a genuine study and reinterpretation of someone else's sprite comic (made in the spirit of authenticity too - to recreate the vibes of the sprite comics from that era, iirc very specifically because it's funny) and I got a comment on that comic's post that's like "glow up"

which is a compliment obvs. and the commenter probably didn't mean anything by it, it's a common expression. but I've been trying to find a way to gracefully put that comment away ever since it appeared lol

I just very much don't want my art to be taken as trying to one-up someone else's art when that's not the piece's intention. especially when the piece that inspired my art is perceived as "low effort" or "shitpost" or stuff like that. I did mention in the tags of that post that my considering it a study is entirely genuine, and I can legitimately write pages about the cool stuff I find in it other than and inherent in the haha funneys, but that's not for you guys that's for me. I just think that approaching art competition-first like that is a miserable way to do it, and (tipping into overthinking here if the whole tiny-comment-got-stuck-in-my-brain-for-almost-a-month part hasn't given that away yet lol) I really don't want that to be the takeaway from my own art. at least generally. if I actually think the source material is trash and what I'm doing is genuinely categorically better I'd just come out and say it lmao

#bakuspeech #yeah it's the darkhog sprite comic #honestly I don't love comments that put my art and other artists' art in a hierarchy in general. wherever my art lands on that scale #especially when it comes to character writing and trans 'representation' #which like. idk man I'm writing One character. he's NOT gonna be The Trans Experience. he's gonna be one character. #but yeah I'd guess I'm writing it all out in a post bc it's not really a race that anyone opts in #I don't actively participate but by virtue of how my art is perceived I just end up on the scale anyway #so uh. I'm suggesting that we do not bring the scale into my house at all lmao #there's also the like. Don't Yuck My Yum guideline of looking at art that's like #I like the things I'm aping! most of the times! if I don't say it's shit and I'm drawing stuff from it usually that means I like it lol #and then you kinda come in like wow what you're doing here is better than the thing you like. and it's not like yknow. #really anything. it's extremely trivial comparatively. but you are in fact yucking my yum there #tldr please try not to think abt art u like vs art u don't as ''better'' or ''worse'' and #have grace for the things that don't please u personally. anyways I'm omw to finishing the frog now. just need to fell all the seams down #and put that boy in da spinner for a ride. and then it can live in a gift bag until the day #I really enjoy holding it actually... maybe after this one I'll make something else. tbh slick stretchy fabrics are superior to fuzzy fabri #doesn't pill And cooler to touch. stuffed toys for the subtropical population #I'll get a combilation of pics once the thing's at its new home. but for now. we must finish the job

[ssreeder]

how are we feeling about the new netflix adaptation of avatar??!!!!!!!!!!!! the zuko casting eats and swolzai is so cool to see actually translated well (although we will see how they treat the characters in this)

HEYYYYYYOOOOO!

The only thing I’m really looking forward to from the live action is being able to gossip about it with my mutuals. I don’t really have any other opinion, I mean… it looks cool! (Sokkas hair & zukos scar bother me but ehhhh what can I do?) But I’m an animation junky, I love my anime and my cartoons (bobs burgers beloved) so I don't particularly care for the “real people actors” taking over my cartoons but I’m totally chill about it honestly.

I will ABSOLUTELY be watching it and probably will form a more solid opinion after I actually watch the show.

#Omg I had to message a friend and ask who sowlozai was hahaha #I was like ummmm I don’t know this person #& they had to hold my hand and walk my old ass through it #But yeah! I guess I’m just not the kind of person who jumps to criticism #I mean don’t get me wrong I love a good gossip sesh #Don’t tempt me with a good time haha #I see a lot of effort being put into it so I want to give everyone who worked really hard to bring this show to life a chance #I can’t just tear apart all their hard work from a few photos and a couple trailers #I know it won’t be close to the original but it might be good #I heard the one piece live action was good #Idk I’m watching one piece currently so I haven’t seen the live action but ahhh luffy is so awesome haha #Again this show could be a dumpster fire but can it be worse than the first live action movie….? I think not #*points at friend who actually likes the live action movie* HAHAHA I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE #poor dads still waiting for book two hahaha #Sorry sorry I love you don’t be mad <3 #Ok well COME SCREAM AT ME WHEN YOU WATCH IT AND ILL YELL BACK!!!!!!! #& yeah they had no business making ozai look that offical… damn it live action CUT IT OUT #& im sorry but iroh is the most iroh looking iroh i could have imagined and i giggle every time i see him #But i will take jabs that Netflix threw all that money at the show and still always sunny did a burn scar on cricket 10000x better than zuk #Left eye paint job (i know it’s mean but i doubt anyone would have stopped watching if they would had added a little more realism to that…) #(They didn’t have to shave his brow but put some of that effect glue shit on it and plaster that sucker down #ONE EYE BROW ZUKO!!!!!!!!!!!! ) #& sokkas jet black hair with his front poof is just …. Damn it I think it’s actually stupidly canon for them to fuck up sokkas character #THIS MUCH - but again… maybe he’ll pull it off idk I JUST DONT KNOW #The girls are perfect & fuck it when azula picked up a bow #The first thing I thought was that fucking Annie song #“Anything you can do I can do better I can do anything better than you” #Zuko works tirelessly to master his weapon #Azula picks up a bow and laughs ‘silly zuzu weapons as child’s play’ *proceeds to hit a bullseye with no effort* #BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK NOT

[sangre]

oh, full of scorpions is my mind.

awesome template by euryalex!

#catarina #bg3 #halsin i rly don't have a problem with you but he takes a big fat L for not banishing kagha from catarina here. #Like u could do much worse. Instead I had to. SMH my head. #also i'm aware of the halsin thing also being bc i didn't spend too much time w him i promise ill give him a better chance later BHSDKGSDH #minthara i didn't meet in this playthrough but i have a feeling they would at least slightly enjoy e/o's company under certain circumstance #idk though so this is just best guess. this was so fun though.. Yay🌝 #🦑.txt